Brown, Menelek Martel
Navy Petty officer 2

Menelek Martel Brown, age 24, from Eastpoint, Georgia.

Service era: Iraq
Military history: Uss Hopper (Ddg 70)

Date of death: Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Death details: Stationed aboard the destroyer Hopper home-ported at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; died Jan. 2 after apparently going overboard in the Arabian Sea. Navy aircraft and ships conducted an extensive search but did not locate him.

Source: Department of Defense, Military Times